Our View: Don't forget to recycle the tree

As the Christmas season wanes and the decorations are carefully packed away and placed in storage, we ask that those who bought live Christmas trees to allow them to live on through recycling.

The city of Monroe offers the largest recycling service, but the city of West Monroe and Poverty Point Historic Site near Epps, among others, will also take that tree off of your hands.

All you have to do is bring the tree, stripped of its decorations and stand, to one of the recycling sites.

Those accepting them will do the rest, chipping them up and transforming them into valuable mulch.

You may see your recycled tree as part of a city garden or as a buffer on a playground.

In Monroe, city residents can even access the mulch free for themselves at the public works facility at 1200 Grammont St., where it can be used in a home flowerbed or for other beautification.

"We look at making the mulch available to our citizens as an added-value service for taxpayers, who by living and working and shopping here are investing in their city," Mayor Jamie Mayo said. "It's just a small perk I think our taxpayers appreciate."

We agree.

These agencies' recycling efforts are a service for both residents and the environment.

Unfortunately, we've see too many trees placed for curbside pickup, where they are destined to take up valuable landfill space.

Please consider dropping your tree off at one of the recycling sites by the Jan. 6 deadline.

Among those sites are the Monroe Civic Center and Walmart on Lamy Lane in Monroe, the West Monroe Seventh Square Farmer's market at 1700 N. Seventh St., and just west of the Epps Town Hall.

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Our View: Don't forget to recycle the tree

As the Christmas season wanes and the decorations are carefully packed away and placed in storage, we ask that those who bought live Christmas trees to allow them to live on through recycling.